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    Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (27 September 1739 – 22 March 1767) was a British politician and heir apparent to the dukedom of Bedford until...
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    Marquess of Tavistock (1732–1732), eldest son of the 4th Duke, died in infancy Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (1739–1767), second son of the 4th Duke...
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    for much of the development of central Bloomsbury. Francis Russell, eldest son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (died 1767), by his wife, Elizabeth...
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    Bedford was a younger son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, eldest son and heir of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. His mother was Lady Elizabeth...
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    Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, KG, PC (13 May 1788 – 14 May 1861), styled Marquess of Tavistock from 1802 to 1839, was a British peer and Whig politician...
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  • Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury, 1673–1690 Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (1739–1767), British politician and eldest son of the 4th Duke of Bedford...
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    Anne, the sole heir of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset. In April 1640, Russell was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Tavistock in the Short Parliament...
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    Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower: Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (27 September 1739 – 22 March 1767) Lady Caroline Russell (c. January 1743 – 26 November...
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    in Morayshire, Scotland, Louisa married James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn, the son of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton, and Harriet Douglas. Louisa...
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    Lord William Russell, third son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, eldest son and heir of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. She was succeeded by...
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    1735, of tuberculosis; Diana's only child by the earl - John Russell, Marquess of Tavistock - had died in infancy. Following her marriage, Gertrude brought...
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    Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (24 May 1917 – 25 October 2002), styled Lord Howland until 1940, and styled Marquess of Tavistock from 1940 until...
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    Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, eldest son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. This was in defiance of the wishes of George's dominating...
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    Elizabeth Keppel (1739–1768), who married Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock. From 1725 to 1737, she was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline. Anne...
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    miles from Houghton. His son and heir apparent, Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (d.1767), lived at Houghton from 1764 until he died in a hunting...
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    Marquess of Tavistock, was a frequent visitor to the town along with his wife, Henrietta. Andrew Russell is the 15th Duke of Bedford and Marquess of Tavistock...
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    takes its name from Marquess of Tavistock, a courtesy title given to the eldest sons of the Dukes of Bedford. In 1920 the Tavistock Clinic was founded...
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    and peer. He was the son of Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Sackville-West, daughter of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl...
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    electors of Tavistock to return him as an MP even though at the time Russell was abroad and under age. Russell entered Parliament more out of a sense of duty...
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  • While known as the Marquess of Tavistock, he wrote "Parrots and Parrot-like Birds". He was a founder member and first President of the Foreign Bird League...
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    Douglas Scott (4 March 1904 – 1 June 1984); she married David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, on 10 January 1929 and they were divorced in 1946), had four...
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    was uncle Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock and his first cousins, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, and John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford. From...
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    Lord President of the Council. Her brother was Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (the father of her nephews Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, and...
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    daughters, which included Anne Russell, wife of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester. Francis Russell, Baron Russell (c. 1554–1585), MP for Northumberland...
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    second marquess and later first duke of Abercorn (1811–1885), and his wife Lady Louisa Jane Russell (1812–1905), second daughter of John Russell, sixth...
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  • Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed] Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Russell (Marquess of Tavistock)...
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    third child of fourteen born to James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, and the former Lady Louisa Russell, daughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford....
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    Anna Maria Stanhope. Russell was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and was member of parliament (MP) for Tavistock (which had been represented...
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    daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Louisa Jane Russell. On 8 November 1869, she married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne...
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    Dissolution of the Monasteries, were the Abbey and town of Tavistock, and the area that is now Covent Garden. Russell is the ancestor of all subsequent...
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